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Michałłowicz Kierżencew, pledged Lebedev (Russian: Платон Михайлович Керженцев (Лебедев), born August 16, 1881 in Moscow, died June 2, 1940) is a Soviet politician, diplomat, journalist. Curriculum vitae

He studied at the Faculty of History and Philology of the Moscow University (he did not graduate), in 1904 joined the SDPRR, Bolshevik, twice arrested. In 1912 he emigrated. in London, New York and Paris, 1918 returned to Russia, worked in the editorial office of Izvestia newspaper, where he became deputy editor. From April 1919 to January 1921, head of the Russian Telegraphic Mission at the WCIK, since 1920 head of the Department of the Romanian People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the RFSRR, 1921 head of the Press Department of this station, from February 1921 to March 10, 1923, a diplomatic representative of the RFSRR in Sweden. From April 1923 to April 1925 he was head of the scientific work organization at the People's Commissariat of the Labor and Peasant Inspectorate of the USSR, from April 4, 1925 to November 26, 1926 Ambassador of the USSR in Italy, 1926-1927 Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Association of State Publishers, 1927-1928 Deputy Manager of the Central Statistical Office at the Supreme Soviet Economic Council. From May 1928 to January 1930 Deputy Head of the Department of Agitation, Propaganda and Media KC WKP (b), 1930 Deputy Chairman of the Bureau of the Communist Academy and Director of the Institute of Literature, Art and Language of the Communist Academy, December 1930 to March 1933, From March 1933 to October 1936 President of the All-Poland Committee on Radiofrequency and Broadcasting at the People's Commissar's Council of the USSR, from January 17, 1936 to January 19, 1938 Chairman of the Art Committee of the People's Commissar of the USSR, from 1939 until the death of the deputy chief editor of the Great and Small Soviet Encyclopedia.

Buried in the Novodevice Cemetery. Bibliography

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